Scarabea: How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Scarabea: How Much Land Does a Man Need? | |
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Directed by | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg |
Screenplay by | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg |
Based on | "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" by Leo Tolstoy |
Produced by | Hans Jürgen Syberberg |
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Edited by | Barbara Mondry |
Music by | Eugen Thomass |
Production company | TMS Film GmbH |
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Running time | 114 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
Scarabea: How Much Land Does a Man Need? (German: Scarabea - wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch?) is a 1969 West German drama film directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, starring Walter Buschhoff, Nicoletta Machiavelli, and Karsten Peters. It tells the story of a German tourist in Sardinia who goes on a hike which becomes a brutal experience. The film was Syberberg's first fiction film and uses motifs from the 1886 short story "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" by Leo Tolstoy. It won the Deutscher Filmpreis for Best Actor (Buschhoff) and Best Cinematography.[1]
Cast[]
- Walter Buschhoff as G. W. Bach
- Nicoletta Machiavelli as Scarabea
- as Der Graf
- Karsten Peters as Regisseur
- Chris A. Holenia
- Rudolf Rhomberg
- Norma Jordan
References[]
- ^ "Scarabea - Wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch?". Filmportal.de (in German). German Film Institute. Retrieved 2013-03-31.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1969 films
- German-language films
- 1960s avant-garde and experimental films
- Films based on short fiction
- Films based on works by Leo Tolstoy
- Films directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
- Films set in Sardinia
- German avant-garde and experimental films
- West German films
- 1960s German film stubs